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Zionist without Zeal: Imagination and Performance of Transnational Belonging
Pokorná, Anna ; Ezzeddine, Petra (advisor) ; Halbich, Marek (referee) ; Szaló, Csaba (referee)
This dissertation based on a fieldwork conducted among Czech Jewish youth during a ten-days educational touristic program Taglit-Birthright explores production of transnational space of mutual belonging. The transnational belonging to Jewish collective is produced through particular physical space of Israel through practice of tourism in collective constructed by the programme as a collective of common origin based on "blood ties". I examine participants' tourist bodily experience, performances, emotions and attitudes as a site of production and reproduction of transnational space using a concept of embodiment as ways in which the individual grasps the world around him/her and makes sense of it in ways that engage both body and mind. Transnational space created throughout the programme becomes socially constructed emotional category of "ahavat Israel", "love for Israel" that might conceal its political implications. Keywords: Transnationalism, diaspora, tourism, embodiment, Jewish youth, Taglit-Birthright, Czech Republic, Israel
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The use of Electrotherapy to Influence Spasticity in Patients after Stroke
Pokorná, Anna ; Jeníček, Jakub (advisor) ; Tichá, Monika (referee)
Title: The use of electrotherapy to influence spasticity in patients after stroke Abstract: The theme of bachelor thesis is the use of electrotherapy to influence spasticity in pacients after stroke. The thesis is divided into two parts - theoretical and practical. In the theoretical part there is described the issue concerning stroke, regulation of muscles tention and spasticity. Mostly there is stated performed research of accessible literary sources on the theme electrotherapy with antispastic effect. These findings come out mostly of the results of foreign studies, which are being mutually compared. Pratical part contains of two case reports of patients, who suffered a stroke and spasticity m. triceps surae has occured in them. On the concrete muscle the stimulation according to Janstch is being applicated for five days. The impact on spasticity is being observed, the spasticity had been examined by using the scale Five-step clinical assessment according to Gracies before the first therapy and instantly after the fifth therapy. Further the changes of parameters, which are desribed by the stated scale, had been observed. The aim of the thesis is to summarize and enrich the issue at the same time and on the basis of the results of own therapy to evaluate the impact of electrotherapy. Key words: stroke,...
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Development of readership through poetry in primary school
Pokorná, Anna ; Hausenblas, Ondřej (advisor) ; Klumparová, Štěpánka (referee)
The goal of this Master's thesis was to support the development of the practice of reading and literacy especially of students of the lower primary school by my own and verified methods. I have observed the development of the children's relationship to reading and their reading skill as long as there was focus on reading and further activity with poems in class in lower primary school. I have also observed the extent, to which is reading of poems and activities related to it supported by reading books, how students work with the text and what they learn by this work. My thesis has among other activities focused on the necessity and contribution of children's recital a dramatization of poetry. I have worked with children from 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 5thgrades of elementary school and also from the 1st grade of 8-year high school, within the scope of literature class, a so-called reading class, within the scope of literary - dramatical branch of art elementary school and drama in education. On the basis of this thesis I can state that working with poetry has significance for a discovery or an establishment of a relationship to reading and understanding of a text for students of the afore mentioned classes. The children have gained an experience with methods, leading to the mentioned objectives; they have...
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The Phenomenon Called Moving Picture
Pokorná, Anna ; Krtilová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Mucha, Ivan (referee)
Designed as a theoretical and empirical study, this master's thesis introduces a film (serial) phenomenon in a variety of perspectives: as a technical image, as a medium of specific film signs, and also as a message communicated through mass media. Through a comparative analysis the theoretical part of the thesis defines the methodological and theoretical framework for interpreting film as a technical image and a sign system. The second part of the thesis analyses TV seriál Četnické humoresky by means of Tudor's semiotic method. It attempts to provide some of the potential meanings communicated through a specific film world, content and form, and at the same time it applies them to the theoretical basis and results provided in the first part of this thesis.
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Here under the Cover. An Anthropology of Food.
Pokorná, Anna ; Ezzeddine, Petra (advisor) ; Abu Ghosh, Yasar (referee)
Synaesthesia (Sutton, 2001), a term used in anthropology of food for the capacities of food to evoke the past in its sensual totality, finds its use in the situation of migration. Migration as a geographical and cultural displacement leaves the country of origin behind. Country of origin becomes the past, its food can be used for evocation of this past experiences subsumed under the notion of home. Evocation of home through the medium of food helps to patch the discontinuites arising from displacement. The memory of home operates as filter through which new circumstances, beliefs and values are experienced and viewed. Taste and eating habits as a part of habitus, mundane taken-for-granted world, yet embodied part of beliefs and cultural norms, are resistant to suspicion that our perception of it might be subject to our interpretation and can play an active role as confirmation of our beliefs about self and Others, and cosequently as the legitimation of action. Moreover, contextuality of food and eating habits (Appadurai, 1988) allows to place cultural difference in the private contexts and does not interpede the proces of integration into the host society. In combination with its mundane taken-for-granted qualities food serves as an ideal material to pass on the cultural difference over the...
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Theology of The Twelve Tribes Community
Pokorná, Anna ; Vojtíšek, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Hošek, Pavel (referee)
The Theology of the Twelve Tribes Movement Abstract: Based on the theological literature of the Twelve Tribes movement, interwiews with the members, and observations in the czech community, this study brings a rewiew of the basic beliefs of this new religious movement. The study focuses on the biblical motives that are the main sources for the movement`s theology and for the everyday life. The study summaries the eschatological beliefs of the movement and comes to a conclusion that the eschatological wiew is the leading motive in the theoretical beliefs as well as the everyday life of the movement. The study finds that not only is the identification with the exclusive Holy Nation importatnt for the movement`s theology, it also determines the interactions with the outer society.
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The History of physical education and sport in Dačice
POKORNÁ, Anna
This thesis is about the history of physical education and sport in the town Dačice from its beginning, i.l. from the establishment of sporting unity Sokol in 1871 till the present days. The thesis is divided into five parts where the first one is devoted to the history of the town Dačice. The next parts are divided according to different time periods. The second part deals with development history of the sport sector until the end of the First World War. The third part examines the period from 1918 to 1945. The following part describes after war period to 1989. The last part is about modern sport from 1989 to the present.
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Marketing of Caro cereal drink
Pokorná, Anna ; Horová, Olga (advisor) ; Řezníková, Jitka (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with the analysis of the actual situation of cereal drinks category, focusing on the Caro brand, and uses marketing research oriented to public and their perception to cereal drinks category and Caro brand. Based on this, it formulates results and recommendations that can be useful for potential help in the area of the brand marketing activities. The diploma thesis is divided into two parts. First part focuses on theoretical and methodic fundamentals, such as marketing and its specific characteristics related to the grocery, marketing environment, marketing mix and the concept of marketing research. Second part deals with the Caro brand marketing, cereal drinks category, analysis of the actual offer situation and marketing research, which is focused on the public perception of cereal drinks category and brand awareness. Based on the ascertained results of analysis and marketing research, recommendations are formulated with respect to brand marketing activities.
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Consumer protection and marketing in baking industry
Pokorná, Anna ; Horová, Olga (advisor) ; Viková, Zita (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the analysis of actual situation of consumer protection on the market with pastries, linked to the analysis of a pastries offer in chosen supermarkets in Prague and marketing of bakery products. The motivation of this work is mainly the situation of dark pastries that is very extended in actual time. These pastries have often different basis and thus they also have various value for the customer. The analysis of the actual situation of consumer protection was made by a research, which was focused on the knowledge and opinions of consumers about what they really buy and what they think they are buying. Based on ascertained information, the actual situation was evaluated and compared with defined hypotheses. Part of this thesis contains also proposals for improvements in this area.
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